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Due to rapid globalization and faster growth of world market, there is always a need of modification in the present mode of manufacturing system; these modifications increase the viabilities of manufacturer to move ahead in competitive market. These changes also improve the manufacturer and consumer relation by meeting the latest demand of consumers. The concept of Agile Manufacturing system is the new in era of twenty first which covers the responsive and time saving strategies design and adopted by the manufacturers to dominate the market. Agile Manufacturing system (AMS) proves to be advancement over other manufacturing systems which are like Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) and Lean Manufacturing System (LMS). Although many industries and companies in India are still in the phase of FMS and still need to cover advance strategies. For this it is needed to identify the barriers which coming in between the implementation of AMS. This paper is based on the Lean and Agile Principles, in which these problems has been tried to remove the barriers. This paper is the effort to identify and remove the barriers with the help of case study.

Keywords

Manufacturing System; Flexible Manufacturing System; Lean Manufacturing

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